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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Thornton, John Wingate 1818-1878 (search)
Thornton, John Wingate 1818-1878 Historian; born in Saco, Me., Aug. 12, 1818; graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840; was admitted to the bar and practised in Boston; was one of the originators of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society. His publications include Lives of Isaac Heath and John Bowles, and of Rev. John Eliot, Jr.; The Landing at Cape Anne, or the charter of the first permanent colony on the Territory of the Massachusetts Company, now discovered and first published from the original manuscript; Ancient Pemaquid and historic review; Peter Oliver's Puritan commonwealth reviewed; The pulpit of the American Revolution, or the political sermons of the period of 1776, with an introduction, notes, and illustrations; Colonial schemes of Popham and Gorges; The Historical relation of New England to the English commonwealth, etc. He died in Saco, Me., June 6, 1878.
house, and that it remained there five or six years. It seems probable that the school-house mentioned in the following agreement was afterwards erected on that lot, and designed for that school:— Articles of agreement between Henry Dunster and Edward Goffe on the one party and Nicholas Withe and Richard Wilson, Daniel Hudson, masons, on the other party, witness as followeth: For a copy of these articles of agreement, made by him from the original in 1845, I am indebted to John Wingate Thornton, Esq., of Boston. 1. Impr. That we Nicolas Wite, Richard Wilson and Daniel Hudson, masons, have undertaken to get at Charlestowne Rock one hundred and fifty load of rock stone, and to lay them in convenient place whence they may be fetched with carts, and that betwene this present third month 1647 and the tenth of the ninth month next ensuing, for the which stones Henry Dunster and Edward Goffe covenant to pay to us sixe pence the load. 2. Item. That we the foresaid three
returned to Connecticut, and d. at Farmington, 1673, leaving a large estate to his only child, a daughter, who m. John Crowe. See Hinman. Gookin, Daniel, is said to have emigrated, with his father, from the County of Kent to Virginia in 1621. He is supposed to have arrived in Boston 1644, in which year he was admitted freeman. He resided for a short time in Boston and Roxbury, but rem. to Camb. about 1647, and here dwelt; during the remainder of his life. By his wife Mary, J. Wingate Thornton, Esq., of Boston, one of the posterity of Gen. Gookin, communicates this note: Col. Chester of London writes that, 11 Nov. 1639, the Bishop of London granted a marriage-license for Daniel Gookin, of St. Sepulchre Parish, London, gentleman, widower, aged 27, and Mary Dolling, of St. Dunstan in the West, London, spinster, aged 21, whose parents were dead. he had Mary, b. prob. in Virginia, m. Edmund Batter of Salem 8 June 1670, and was living in 1685; Elizabeth, b. at Rox. 14 Mar. 1644
returned to Connecticut, and d. at Farmington, 1673, leaving a large estate to his only child, a daughter, who m. John Crowe. See Hinman. Gookin, Daniel, is said to have emigrated, with his father, from the County of Kent to Virginia in 1621. He is supposed to have arrived in Boston 1644, in which year he was admitted freeman. He resided for a short time in Boston and Roxbury, but rem. to Camb. about 1647, and here dwelt; during the remainder of his life. By his wife Mary, J. Wingate Thornton, Esq., of Boston, one of the posterity of Gen. Gookin, communicates this note: Col. Chester of London writes that, 11 Nov. 1639, the Bishop of London granted a marriage-license for Daniel Gookin, of St. Sepulchre Parish, London, gentleman, widower, aged 27, and Mary Dolling, of St. Dunstan in the West, London, spinster, aged 21, whose parents were dead. he had Mary, b. prob. in Virginia, m. Edmund Batter of Salem 8 June 1670, and was living in 1685; Elizabeth, b. at Rox. 14 Mar. 1644
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